EU MINISTERS BACK TOUGHENING SCHENGEN BORDER CHECKS OVER TERROR FEARS
March 1st, 2016
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has agreed to back reinforcing checks of all persons entering or leaving the EU, including of EU citizens, to reduce the risk of visitors promoting terrorism.
“We have to determine whether they form a threat to our safety or not,” said Klaas Dijkhoff, the Netherlands’ minister for migration following a February 25 meeting of the EU council for justice and home affairs.
A proposed amendment to the Schengen Borders Code, which governs the rules operating the EU’s internal border-free Schengen zone, ...
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